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Proverse Hong Kong is based in Hong Kong with long-term and expanding regional and international connections.

The International Proverse Prize for Unpublished Non-fiction, Fiction and Poetry is open to all irrespective of residence, citizenship or nationality.

The Publishers were born in the UK and have lived and worked in many countries. They visit, from time to time, Australia, Europe, Japan, Mainland China, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, the United Kingdom and the USA.

We welcome enquiries for co-published editions.

Hong Kong today does not really look like the tranquil scene above.

Below is a photo of the new town of Tung Chung, formerly a fishing village, seen on a very hot day. The children are cooling off and having fun in the sound-responding fountain. The flat concrete slabs to the front left and middle right of the photo represent fishing boats, as a gesture towards remembering the past. A poem in one of Gillian Bickley's poetry collections talks about these seats and a couple seen sitting on one. You may like to look for it in one of her five poetry collections?

Our Proverse P.O. Box is about 50 yards to the left of this photo, and this is also where an escalator leads to the gondolas that take tourists up to the Big Buddha.

Here below is the Tung Chung Post Office where we collect our mail.

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If you were ever to come out to visit us, you could arrive by the Mass Transit Railway (MTR) at Sunny Bay, the station that serves Hong Kong's Disneyland, and make your way to a nearby connecting bus. In the month of May or so, you would have the stunning pleasure of several brilliant examples of Flame of the Forest trees.

The poem, 'A Relative Quiet', in Gillian Bickley's poetry collection, "China Suite", describes Sunny Bay station on a contrasting day of fog, when "the flame trees hold their fire."***

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HAWAII PUBLIC RADIO's Wayne Yoshioka reports on the East-West Centre Informal Gathering occasioned by the visit of Dr Verner Bickley, first Director of the EWC Culture Learning Institute, and the launch of his book, "Steps to Paradise and Beyond".

Proverse friends at a Proverse Spring Reception, where the results of the annual international Proverse Prize competition were announced and several books launched. -- Photo by Errol Patrick Hugh (A Personal Journey Through Sketching: The Sketcher's Art (Proverse, 2009).)

To know more about Proverse, submitting a publishing proposal to Proverse, and/or entering for the international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length non-fiction, fiction or poetry and/or the international Proverse Poetry Prize, browse the Proverse website: http://www.proversepublishing.com or take a look at the publishers' pages which are included in most Proverse books.

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